Maria Ahmed uses collage, books and moving image to investigate historic and contemporary languages of photography, drawing on digital and physical sources. She lives and works in London and holds an MA Photography Arts from the University of Westminster (Distinction) 2020.

INSTA @maria_a_ahmed

Selected activities:

Exhibitor, Peckham 24 A Bigger Book Fair, 2024

Exhibitor, Format Print Market, QUAD Derby, 2024

Pecha Kucha, Ambika P3 gallery, 2023

Artist’s book workshop, Backbone Books, Berlin, 2023

Artist’s talk with Lucy Soutter and Sarah-Jane Field, Photofusion, 2023

Slips and Burns - solo exhibition, Photofusion, 2023
Curator: Katy Barron

TRACE Mentorship artist’s development scheme 2022-3

Format 22 Artist’s panel discussion with Ibby Azab, 2022

Format 22 multiplayer exhibition Kipya Ki? 2022
Curators: Ibrahim Azab (UK) & Trevor Mukholi (Uganda)

Select 21 Artist’s talk with Katy Barron, Photofusion, 2022

Select 21 Photofusion, 2022

AARK Residency, Finland, 2022

London Creative Network artist’s development scheme, 2021-2

Photofusion Salon, 2021

I Didn’t Lick it, Bruton Correspondence School, 2021

Source Graduate Photography Online, 2020

Awards:

Shortlisted Belfast Photofestival, 2022

Shortlisted FE+ Skinnerboox Book Award, 2022

Shortlisted Fiebre Dummy Award, 2022

Shortlisted Images Vevey Book Award, 2021

Photofusion Select Award, 2021
Selectors: Zelda Cheatle and Emma Bowkett

Photofusion Graduate Prize, 2020
Selector: Kim Shaw

Texts:

Slips and Burns, Caroline Molloy, 2023, Photomonitor

Mixed Memories, David Bate, 2023

Heaven Speed the Chameleon, Calum Beaney 2021, C4 Journal

Education:

MA Photography Arts, University of Westminster (Distinction)

BA Hons English, Wadham College, University of Oxford

Teaching:

Kingston School of Art, School of Creative and Cultural Industries 2010-current